Read #QuinnNorton about #whiteness:
"The great thing about the divide-and-conquer of creating white-skin #privilege is that you don’t have to give people thusly bought off anything more, and American power structures didn’t. In places with black #slavery, the whites suffered terribly.

"There is a simple truth to American history for the majority of people who have ever been American: the worse the black experience, the worse everyone else’s experience, including whites. Driving down (or eliminating) black #wages, while always agreeable to whites, drove white pay lower than their European counterparts for most of our history."

https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42 #history #learning #learn #sociology #reputation #agnotology #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #TheSouth #labor #exploitation #capitalism